"The Gary Post-Tribune," Tuesday, May 8, 1962, Page C-8
DEATH NOTICES
GRASSO, MOLLIE—Age 66 of 529 Adams Street, passed away on Monday, May 7, 1962 at Mercy Hospital. She was a resident of Gary, Indiana for 30 years and was a member of Holy Angels Cathedral. Survivors are husband, Phillip R. Grasso; two sons, Albert Rumpza Barton and Frank Rumpza Barton, both of Gary; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Napoles of Gary, Mrs. Jean Lutes of Los Angeles, California; three sisters, Mrs. Nellie Otte of Radnor, Indiana; Mrs. Jennie Mendenhall of Rochester, Indiana, and Rose of Santa Barbara, California; two brothers, Jesse Widner and James Widner of Delphi, Indiana; 8 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren. Funeral from Williams & Burns on Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to Holy Angels Cathedral for services at 9:30 a.m. Msgr John A. Sullivan officiating. Interment is in Mount Mercy Cemetery. Rosary will be recited on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Friends may call Tuesday 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
MOLLIE (MARY) WIDNER GRASSO
Mollie Widner was born on October 1, 1895, in Monon, (White County) Indiana. She passed away on May 7, 1962 at Mercy Hospital, Gary, (Lake County) Indiana of congestive heart failure. She was the daughter of William and Nettie Thompson Widner of Delphi, (Carroll County) Indiana, where she lived as a child. She had eight siblings: Mabel Widner Fife, Rosa Widner Clark, Jennie Widner Mendenhall, G. Nell Widner Otte, James Widner, William Widner, Jr., Johnnie Widner and Jesse Widner.
Mollie was reared in rural Indiana, the daughter of a local butcher, William Widner, who was known for his fiddle-playing and square dance calling. Mollie attended Delphi schools. In 1908, she was committed to the Indiana Industrial School for Girls in Indianapolis, Indiana for trespassing. (One of the first schools in the US to separate juvenile inmates from adult female inmates, Mollie was undoubtedly affected life-long by her sentence which endured as was customary at the time, through age 21.) Records from the school detail a series of events including the birth of her first child, Jean, on June 26, 1914 while at the reform school.
Mollie married Frank Rumpza, Jr., son of Frank M. Rumpza and Mary Grovina Rumpza, originally of Danzig, Germany and later, Lafayette, on February 4, 1916 in Lafayette, (Tippecanoe County) Indiana. Frank was the owner and keeper of a saloon at 1021 Wabash Avenue in Lafayette. Rumpza enrolled in the military on June 5, 1917, and served during World War I. They had four children, Raymond, Evelyn, Albert and Frank. Frank was a casualty of World War I.
Mollie married Harley J. Barton of Montgomery, (Linden County) Indiana, the son of James Matthew Barton and Martha Ann Vail Barton on July 3, 1925, in Lake County, Indiana. Harley was a veteran of World War I (the famed Rainbow division) and suffered from health-related issues with several stints in the Soldier and Sailors Home at Lafayette and Danville, Illinois, and legal issues during their marriage. The marriage ended in divorce in 1937. Mollie worked in restaurants as a cook and a waitress during their marriage.
Mollie relocated to Gary, Indiana. Her third marriage was to Robert Ocampo on September 7, 1938 in Lake County, Indiana. Mollie worked as a housekeeper in a private residence and was the head of the household in 1940 for three grown children and two grandchildren.
She married Philip Rogers Grasso in Gary (Lake County) Indiana on May 14, 1954. They lived at 529 Adams, Apartment D-4 in Gary, Indiana; Philip worked as a painter.
Known loved ones who preceded her in death were: siblings, Mabel, Johnnie, and William, Jr., as well as her parents; and husbands, Frank, Harley and Robert.
"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and
more in the light of what they suffer." ~ Deietrich Bonhoeffer
DEATH NOTICES
GRASSO, MOLLIE—Age 66 of 529 Adams Street, passed away on Monday, May 7, 1962 at Mercy Hospital. She was a resident of Gary, Indiana for 30 years and was a member of Holy Angels Cathedral. Survivors are husband, Phillip R. Grasso; two sons, Albert Rumpza Barton and Frank Rumpza Barton, both of Gary; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Napoles of Gary, Mrs. Jean Lutes of Los Angeles, California; three sisters, Mrs. Nellie Otte of Radnor, Indiana; Mrs. Jennie Mendenhall of Rochester, Indiana, and Rose of Santa Barbara, California; two brothers, Jesse Widner and James Widner of Delphi, Indiana; 8 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren. Funeral from Williams & Burns on Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to Holy Angels Cathedral for services at 9:30 a.m. Msgr John A. Sullivan officiating. Interment is in Mount Mercy Cemetery. Rosary will be recited on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Friends may call Tuesday 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
MOLLIE (MARY) WIDNER GRASSO
Mollie Widner was born on October 1, 1895, in Monon, (White County) Indiana. She passed away on May 7, 1962 at Mercy Hospital, Gary, (Lake County) Indiana of congestive heart failure. She was the daughter of William and Nettie Thompson Widner of Delphi, (Carroll County) Indiana, where she lived as a child. She had eight siblings: Mabel Widner Fife, Rosa Widner Clark, Jennie Widner Mendenhall, G. Nell Widner Otte, James Widner, William Widner, Jr., Johnnie Widner and Jesse Widner.
Mollie was reared in rural Indiana, the daughter of a local butcher, William Widner, who was known for his fiddle-playing and square dance calling. Mollie attended Delphi schools. In 1908, she was committed to the Indiana Industrial School for Girls in Indianapolis, Indiana for trespassing. (One of the first schools in the US to separate juvenile inmates from adult female inmates, Mollie was undoubtedly affected life-long by her sentence which endured as was customary at the time, through age 21.) Records from the school detail a series of events including the birth of her first child, Jean, on June 26, 1914 while at the reform school.
Mollie married Frank Rumpza, Jr., son of Frank M. Rumpza and Mary Grovina Rumpza, originally of Danzig, Germany and later, Lafayette, on February 4, 1916 in Lafayette, (Tippecanoe County) Indiana. Frank was the owner and keeper of a saloon at 1021 Wabash Avenue in Lafayette. Rumpza enrolled in the military on June 5, 1917, and served during World War I. They had four children, Raymond, Evelyn, Albert and Frank. Frank was a casualty of World War I.
Mollie married Harley J. Barton of Montgomery, (Linden County) Indiana, the son of James Matthew Barton and Martha Ann Vail Barton on July 3, 1925, in Lake County, Indiana. Harley was a veteran of World War I (the famed Rainbow division) and suffered from health-related issues with several stints in the Soldier and Sailors Home at Lafayette and Danville, Illinois, and legal issues during their marriage. The marriage ended in divorce in 1937. Mollie worked in restaurants as a cook and a waitress during their marriage.
Mollie relocated to Gary, Indiana. Her third marriage was to Robert Ocampo on September 7, 1938 in Lake County, Indiana. Mollie worked as a housekeeper in a private residence and was the head of the household in 1940 for three grown children and two grandchildren.
She married Philip Rogers Grasso in Gary (Lake County) Indiana on May 14, 1954. They lived at 529 Adams, Apartment D-4 in Gary, Indiana; Philip worked as a painter.
Known loved ones who preceded her in death were: siblings, Mabel, Johnnie, and William, Jr., as well as her parents; and husbands, Frank, Harley and Robert.
"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and
more in the light of what they suffer." ~ Deietrich Bonhoeffer
"The Gary Post-Tribune," Tuesday, May 8, 1962, Page C-8
DEATH NOTICES
GRASSO, MOLLIE—Age 66 of 529 Adams Street, passed away on Monday, May 7, 1962 at Mercy Hospital. She was a resident of Gary, Indiana for 30 years and was a member of Holy Angels Cathedral. Survivors are husband, Phillip R. Grasso; two sons, Albert Rumpza Barton and Frank Rumpza Barton, both of Gary; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Napoles of Gary, Mrs. Jean Lutes of Los Angeles, California; three sisters, Mrs. Nellie Otte of Radnor, Indiana; Mrs. Jennie Mendenhall of Rochester, Indiana, and Rose of Santa Barbara, California; two brothers, Jesse Widner and James Widner of Delphi, Indiana; 8 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren. Funeral from Williams & Burns on Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to Holy Angels Cathedral for services at 9:30 a.m. Msgr John A. Sullivan officiating. Interment is in Mount Mercy Cemetery. Rosary will be recited on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Friends may call Tuesday 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
MOLLIE (MARY) WIDNER GRASSO
Mollie Widner was born on October 1, 1895, in Monon, (White County) Indiana. She passed away on May 7, 1962 at Mercy Hospital, Gary, (Lake County) Indiana of congestive heart failure. She was the daughter of William and Nettie Thompson Widner of Delphi, (Carroll County) Indiana, where she lived as a child. She had eight siblings: Mabel Widner Fife, Rosa Widner Clark, Jennie Widner Mendenhall, G. Nell Widner Otte, James Widner, William Widner, Jr., Johnnie Widner and Jesse Widner.
Mollie was reared in rural Indiana, the daughter of a local butcher, William Widner, who was known for his fiddle-playing and square dance calling. Mollie attended Delphi schools. In 1908, she was committed to the Indiana Industrial School for Girls in Indianapolis, Indiana for trespassing. (One of the first schools in the US to separate juvenile inmates from adult female inmates, Mollie was undoubtedly affected life-long by her sentence which endured as was customary at the time, through age 21.) Records from the school detail a series of events including the birth of her first child, Jean, on June 26, 1914 while at the reform school.
Mollie married Frank Rumpza, Jr., son of Frank M. Rumpza and Mary Grovina Rumpza, originally of Danzig, Germany and later, Lafayette, on February 4, 1916 in Lafayette, (Tippecanoe County) Indiana. Frank was the owner and keeper of a saloon at 1021 Wabash Avenue in Lafayette. Rumpza enrolled in the military on June 5, 1917, and served during World War I. They had four children, Raymond, Evelyn, Albert and Frank. Frank was a casualty of World War I.
Mollie married Harley J. Barton of Montgomery, (Linden County) Indiana, the son of James Matthew Barton and Martha Ann Vail Barton on July 3, 1925, in Lake County, Indiana. Harley was a veteran of World War I (the famed Rainbow division) and suffered from health-related issues with several stints in the Soldier and Sailors Home at Lafayette and Danville, Illinois, and legal issues during their marriage. The marriage ended in divorce in 1937. Mollie worked in restaurants as a cook and a waitress during their marriage.
Mollie relocated to Gary, Indiana. Her third marriage was to Robert Ocampo on September 7, 1938 in Lake County, Indiana. Mollie worked as a housekeeper in a private residence and was the head of the household in 1940 for three grown children and two grandchildren.
She married Philip Rogers Grasso in Gary (Lake County) Indiana on May 14, 1954. They lived at 529 Adams, Apartment D-4 in Gary, Indiana; Philip worked as a painter.
Known loved ones who preceded her in death were: siblings, Mabel, Johnnie, and William, Jr., as well as her parents; and husbands, Frank, Harley and Robert.
"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and
more in the light of what they suffer." ~ Deietrich Bonhoeffer
DEATH NOTICES
GRASSO, MOLLIE—Age 66 of 529 Adams Street, passed away on Monday, May 7, 1962 at Mercy Hospital. She was a resident of Gary, Indiana for 30 years and was a member of Holy Angels Cathedral. Survivors are husband, Phillip R. Grasso; two sons, Albert Rumpza Barton and Frank Rumpza Barton, both of Gary; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Napoles of Gary, Mrs. Jean Lutes of Los Angeles, California; three sisters, Mrs. Nellie Otte of Radnor, Indiana; Mrs. Jennie Mendenhall of Rochester, Indiana, and Rose of Santa Barbara, California; two brothers, Jesse Widner and James Widner of Delphi, Indiana; 8 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren. Funeral from Williams & Burns on Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to Holy Angels Cathedral for services at 9:30 a.m. Msgr John A. Sullivan officiating. Interment is in Mount Mercy Cemetery. Rosary will be recited on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Friends may call Tuesday 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
MOLLIE (MARY) WIDNER GRASSO
Mollie Widner was born on October 1, 1895, in Monon, (White County) Indiana. She passed away on May 7, 1962 at Mercy Hospital, Gary, (Lake County) Indiana of congestive heart failure. She was the daughter of William and Nettie Thompson Widner of Delphi, (Carroll County) Indiana, where she lived as a child. She had eight siblings: Mabel Widner Fife, Rosa Widner Clark, Jennie Widner Mendenhall, G. Nell Widner Otte, James Widner, William Widner, Jr., Johnnie Widner and Jesse Widner.
Mollie was reared in rural Indiana, the daughter of a local butcher, William Widner, who was known for his fiddle-playing and square dance calling. Mollie attended Delphi schools. In 1908, she was committed to the Indiana Industrial School for Girls in Indianapolis, Indiana for trespassing. (One of the first schools in the US to separate juvenile inmates from adult female inmates, Mollie was undoubtedly affected life-long by her sentence which endured as was customary at the time, through age 21.) Records from the school detail a series of events including the birth of her first child, Jean, on June 26, 1914 while at the reform school.
Mollie married Frank Rumpza, Jr., son of Frank M. Rumpza and Mary Grovina Rumpza, originally of Danzig, Germany and later, Lafayette, on February 4, 1916 in Lafayette, (Tippecanoe County) Indiana. Frank was the owner and keeper of a saloon at 1021 Wabash Avenue in Lafayette. Rumpza enrolled in the military on June 5, 1917, and served during World War I. They had four children, Raymond, Evelyn, Albert and Frank. Frank was a casualty of World War I.
Mollie married Harley J. Barton of Montgomery, (Linden County) Indiana, the son of James Matthew Barton and Martha Ann Vail Barton on July 3, 1925, in Lake County, Indiana. Harley was a veteran of World War I (the famed Rainbow division) and suffered from health-related issues with several stints in the Soldier and Sailors Home at Lafayette and Danville, Illinois, and legal issues during their marriage. The marriage ended in divorce in 1937. Mollie worked in restaurants as a cook and a waitress during their marriage.
Mollie relocated to Gary, Indiana. Her third marriage was to Robert Ocampo on September 7, 1938 in Lake County, Indiana. Mollie worked as a housekeeper in a private residence and was the head of the household in 1940 for three grown children and two grandchildren.
She married Philip Rogers Grasso in Gary (Lake County) Indiana on May 14, 1954. They lived at 529 Adams, Apartment D-4 in Gary, Indiana; Philip worked as a painter.
Known loved ones who preceded her in death were: siblings, Mabel, Johnnie, and William, Jr., as well as her parents; and husbands, Frank, Harley and Robert.
"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and
more in the light of what they suffer." ~ Deietrich Bonhoeffer
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